Editing Liam O'Neill (section)

==Background and Family:==

<strong>Wife:</strong><br>
*[[Rank|Commander]] Grace O'Neill (deceased, 2411) 
<strong>Children: </strong><br>
*[[Rank|Lieutenant]] [[Eian O'Neill]] (born 2389), [[Engineering|ACEO]], [[USS Rosenante]]
*[[Rank|Cadet]] Glenn O'Neill (born 2395), Starfleet Academy 

Liam was born in Ireland in 2358 to two loving parents who encouraged his enthusiasm for medicine.  He enrolled in Starfleet Academy at age 18 and graduated at age 22.  He was assigned to a Starfleet hospital in New York on [[Earth]], practicing experimental pediatric medicine.  He met his wife Grace at the annual Interspecies Diversity Conference, during which various individuals from Starfleet were selected to present new research the organization was doing to better its understanding of the many species in the galaxy.  Grace presented on wartime strategy differences between species, and Liam presented on interspecies pediatric biological similarities.  Both stationed on Earth, both originally from Ireland, they were attracted to each other instantly and dated for several months before getting married in the Jonah Chapel in a small town in Ireland.  They had their first son, Eian, after a touch-and-go pregnancy.  Their second child, Glenn, was born without incident almost seven years later.  

Grace was killed in the line of duty in 2411, leaving Liam widowed.  The family's religious beliefs held them together, though Eian suffered from clinical depression for about six months after his mother's death.  Liam remained the rock of the family, never confessing to his children just how dark his own thoughts became around that time.

When Eian was [[assimilation|assimilated]], Liam stepped in to help his son recover psychologically.  Again, Liam found himself standing as the foundation of the family and leaning on his own faith to help him do so in the face of adversity.